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5.228 R174375 1 Hey boys up go we Hey, Boys, Up Go We Hey Boys Up Go We YOung Maidens all, to you I call, / take counsel by this song, For a single life is best. [with variations] date from imprint Pepys 5.228 Wing C6778[A] Pepys Library The Pepys ballads : facsimile volume Editor W.G. Day D.S. Brewer Cambridge [England] 1987 Information in this section of the Source Description refers to the original ballad manuscript. 5: 228 THE / Crafty Maids Invention. / Or her Council / To all Young MAIDS / How to chuse good Husbanes, Or, A single life is best. THE Crafty Maids Invention, Or her Council To all Young MAIDS How to chuse good Husbanes, Or, A single life is best. The Crafty Maid's Invention, or, Her Counsel to All Young Maids How to Choose Good Husbands, or, A Single Life Is Best. 1/2 sheet folio 275 x 160 cropped left, right and bottom edges, uneven inking Printer T. M. 1689 Printed by T. M. in White-Friers. 1689. Weinstein: imprint

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YOung Maidens all, to you I call, take counsel by this song, Or you may Chance to catch a fall, if young men do you wrong, Be carefull of your Maiden-heads, these words they are confest, How you bring young men to your bed[s], For a single life is best. They'l flatter you with tempting words as sweet as Sugar-Candy, Then you must to the Alehouse go to drink Ale, Beer and Brandy, With dainty fine short Sugar'd Cakes, young Men will Maidens feast, Only to get their will of them, But a single life is best. Young men they are so cunning now that Maids had need be wise, believe not them when they do vow, they'l fill your ears with lies, When the Spirit moves them to do evil, great love they will profess, they'l swear and lye beyond the Devil, But a single life's the best. For Cupid with his golden Dart has many a Maid betray'd, And has wounded them unto the heart, all is not true that's said, But its hard for any Maiden here to know what Man's the best, But I wish young Maidens have a care, For a single, etc. While a Maiden lives a single life it is a pleasant thing, She has no Coxcomb to obey, nor bawling brat to sing, Nor lullaby she needs to cry, but sleep and take her rest, But come day go day, God send Night, A single, etc.
But if a Maiden will be wed, be careful how they chuse, And if he be an honest Man she needs not him refuse. But a down look Man, say what you can will be none of the best, He with his Wife will make great strife, Then a single, etc. But a Caret Head and Caret Beard, they'r bad for to be try'd, His Wife can ne're go out of doors but he will bawl and chide, He is so jealous of his Wife he'l swear she does transgress, That Woman's weary of her Life, A single, etc. A thin Fac'd Man's Conditions are as I will plainly show, They often strike their own dear Wife, no more but word and blow. A tallow Fac'd Man he's as bad, his Wife must take no rest, She's barely Cloath'd and hardly Fed, A single, etc. Give me the Black and bonny Brown, they are the Men for me, There's hardly one in all the Town with Women disagree, They are also kind and loving to their Wives I do protest; That Maid that catches one of those, Then a Married life is best. Now to conclude young Maidens all be not too quickly catch'd, But she that marries an honest man, she'l ne're repent her match, An honest man will love his Wife, a Knave makes her a Beast, Therefore young maidens have a care, For a single life is best.
Printed by T. M. in White-Friers. 1689.